IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

A control portion specifies an allowance time from a job reception time to a time at which a job sender reaches a self-apparatus, on the basis of allowance time specifying information acquired per print job data. Furthermore, the control portion controls a start time of a print process in accordance with an order in which an elapsed time from the job reception time is determined to have reached a planned start time. The planned start time is a time which is back-calculated from a time point when the allowance time elapses after the job reception, on the basis of a time required for the print process.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable job storage portion configured to temporarily store print job data received from a terminal apparatus via a network; a print processing portion including a sheet conveying portion configured to convey a sheet material and an image forming portion configured to form an image on the sheet material being conveyed, the print processing portion being configured to perform a print process of forming an image represented by the print job data, on the sheet material and discharging a printed matter which is the sheet material on which the image has been formed, to a discharged sheet receiving portion; an allowance time specifying information acquisition portion configured to acquire, per the print job data, allowance time specifying information used for specifying an allowance time from a time of reception of the print job data to a time at which a sender of the print job data reaches the self-apparatus; a start possibility determination portion configured to determine whether each print job data stored in the job storage portion is in a start enabled state where a planned start time has come which is back-calculated from a time point when the allowance time specified by the allowance time specifying information elapses after the reception of the print job data, on the basis of a time required for the print process; and a print time control portion configured to control a start time of the print process for each print job data stored in the job storage portion, in accordance with an order in which the print job data is determined as being in the start enabled state.